Definitely. We'd iron them between sheets of waxed paper. But what we did with them after that, I have no idea.

My first few years were in a one-room country school, and the teacher would cancel classes in the afternoon so that we could all go out and rake the leaves. The school was on a one-acre treed lot.

We didn't have to gather a lot of leaves but I do remember ironing a leaf between waxed paper in art class. I think we used to display them in the classroom window.

We always did rubbings with them. Every year in 7th grade my kids had to gather, identify and make a book out of all the different leaves. I used to love that project!

We collected leaves for ID too. I remember ironing them between sheets of waxed paper too but don't remember what we did with them afterward. My kids (29 and 37 now) didn't collect leaves. Sad for them.

In middle school our class would take a field trip to our science teachers home, then we walked out into the woods and he would ask us to identify the trees by the various leaf shapes etc...Then as a class project we had to gather as many different varieties of leaves from the trees and glue each leaf to notebook paper and ID each leaf, and information about the tree they came from..We made a leaf identification journal with them.. In another class we would press the leaves between wax paper. My kids did the same thing in school.. And my husband and I would take our grandson out in the woods to gather the leaves and teach him to identify them. Then we would make artwork by pressing the leaves on construction paper and pressing between wax paper..

Such wonderful memories of science and art combined. I do love fall.

We didn't have the volume of leaves in SoCal that we have where we are now, so we'd have to go on a leaf hunt instead and the goal was to find the largest variety of shapes and sizes possible.. Then we'd lay them out under paper and color over them in fall colors. After transfering their shape and veining onto the paper, we'd make Thanksgiving cards for our parents with the personally designed paper.

We had to do leaves and bugs. Didn't mind the leaves,hated the bugs!

Ahhh, memories. Collected fall foliage leaves in NE. (Also remembering having to rake them too.)

We collected the leaves, identified them by common and scientific name and ironed them in waxed paper. The pages were then punched and bound into a book. As I recall, at least some years, it was a graded project.

In Grade school we were given a list of leaves to find and for some of the leaves like ones from a chestnut tree we had to walk further to look for them. We were given a bonus mark for finding tree leaves not on the list. I was lucky, the yard next door had a gingko tree and the teacher was always surprised when she saw that leaf. We used to collect leaves and press them between sheets of waxed paper. In my attic if you look through varipus older books or diaries you may come across a really old leaf pressed between the pages, some of them now more than 60 years old

Oh yes, we had a project in science I think. Similar to others, we had to collect and identify maybe 10-12 different leaves, press them in waxed paper and then they were put into a notebook. We had to put the scientific/botanical names as well so this must have been up in late elementary or junior high (middle) school.

I don't remember doing it, but I remember my son doing it and making a leaf notebook to turn in. I think I still have it somewhere. I thought it might be a valuable resource someday.

I can remember our first grade teacher flattened the leaves in a book. Then she handed us all one leaf to outline on a piece of construction paper, that we then colored.

Like terilyn, we had to do both a bug collection and a leaf collection as different graded projects for biology class. Rather than wax paper, I think I used clear contact paper to adhere the leaves to the pages of the project. I also think I had about twice the number of leaves necessary for an "A".

For the bug collection I had extra bees, wasps and hornets, so a classmate who had a extra dragonfly offered to swap a dragonfly for a couple of bees. I reminded him that the teacher had specifically listed dragonflies (and praying mantises IIRC) as beneficial insects that shouldn't be killed for the project. He responded that he found the dragonflies already dead. I made the swap and transferred his pinned dragonfly to my wax-filled cigar box. A few hours later I heard an odd buzzing noise coming from my box, and opened it to find that the "already dead" dragonfly had recovered and was trying desperately to free itself. I was horrified.